Uber denies its CTO met with Cambridge Analytica

But it has not been able to confirm that no meetings between anyone else on its payroll and Cambridge Analytica took place. [ Tech Crunch ]

How John Doerr Keeps Companies On the Right Track

Why are so many of our great companies, organizations, and institutions failing us? Because they’re setting the wrong objectives. Or worse, they’re setting none at all.

At the TED conference here on Saturday, John Doerr took to the stage to make an impassioned case for the importance of OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results. Too many organizations have taken us to the wrong objectives, he said. Often those objectives lack a sense of purpose to energize teams—a sense
of why. “This has to stop,” Doerr said. [ Fortune ]

FuboTV, an online TV service, has raised $75 million from TV programmers and other investors

Over 400 Startups Are Trying To Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race To Overthrow Every Consumer Category

James McKean wants to revolutionize the manual tooth­brush. It's January 2018. The 31-year-old MBA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School whirls his
laptop around to show me the prototype designs. Bristle, as the product might be called, has a detach­able head and a colorful pattern on the handle--like faux wood grain, flowers, or plaid. Cus­tomers would pay somewhere around $15 for their first purchase, and then get replacement heads, at $3 or $4 a pop, through a subscription service. [ Inc. ]

The making of a hardware founder

Working in tech, it’s hard to avoid the many stories and congratulatory tweets about the latest company to close a funding round, and little wonder. It’s a milestone worth celebrating before getting back to work. Yet what’s happening in the trenches before those funding announcements roll out is often more instructive. How does one decide to make the leap in the first place? How do you mold a product or service into something that you can present to outsiders? How can you enlist people to help you when everyone you want to meet has more pressing demands on their time? [ TechCrunch ]